Regarding that Finaland Interview...

[Amariel34]

"I think that in order to prevent other MMOs from catching up, we should flesh out what it means to "live" in the world of FFXIV with things that only FFXIV can do, like Perform and the housing roleplay stuff. "

Um.... Has he SEEN Lord of the Rings Online? While not too popular is has a music system that is pretty amazing. If anyone wants an idea, look on youtube for something called Weatherstock. It's a HUGE musical event that players put on in the game every year. Compared to that Perform is rather simple.

[Skivvy]

"I think that in order to prevent other MMOs from catching up, we should flesh out what it means to "live" in the world of FFXIV with things that only FFXIV can do, like Perform and the housing roleplay stuff. "

Um.... Has he SEEN Lord of the Rings Online? While not too popular is has a music system that is pretty amazing. If anyone wants an idea, look on youtube for something called Weatherstock. It's a HUGE musical event that players put on in the game every year. Compared to that Perform is rather simple.

GW2 has a very similar system to XIV as well. And then there is Archeage. That game uses an MML system, so you're not exactly playing "live", but it's a lot of fun. Spent many nights performing songs with my small group of people.

[Aylis]

"I think that in order to prevent other MMOs from catching up, we should flesh out what it means to "live" in the world of FFXIV with things that only FFXIV can do, like Perform and the housing roleplay stuff. "

Um.... Has he SEEN Lord of the Rings Online? While not too popular is has a music system that is pretty amazing. If anyone wants an idea, look on youtube for something called Weatherstock. It's a HUGE musical event that players put on in the game every year. Compared to that Perform is rather simple.

The comment did confuse me at first pertaining to that and more so the housing RP stuff. Housing RP pretty much existed through nearly every MMO made after 1999. So it made me wonder if he really ever did play any modern or semi modern MMO. Then I thought more on it and what really does put FFXIV as one of the better RP games is its large and very elaborate and detailed catalogue of emotes, dances and expressions. So I don't know what he's going for and if he's aiming for focusing the game on its Second Life aspects more so then the actual game itself. Which is great if you RP, not so much if you don't. Maybe that's what he means by "other MMO's catching up" since those other MMO's focus more on the game play part first and the aesthetics part second.

If its true I'm expecting to see a slew of more $8 emotes on the cash shop >_>

[Falen_Nadleeh]

Hello, I work for Finaland and although I wasn't at Gamescom for the interview done by Fat Chocobo, I was the one who did the full transcript of it.
"German Media" is just because we couldn't remember the name of the other media who did the interview with us.

The interview was done in english, translated in japanese to Mr. Yoshida and Mr.Soken, then the answers were translated back in english to us.

It was Mr. Koji-Fox who did the translation, so there are no translation errors possible.
(I'm sure you will find a lot of grammatical errors though, English is not my native language !)

We emit those kind of critics towards the game because we love the game (I myself am a player since version 1.20), we want the game to continue to shine and we think that sometime some critics are necessary.
Our intentions were in NO WAY to put Yoshida and the developement team on the spot. We have a huge respect for them and we love the game that's why in each of our interviews we ask questions that we think are important to the community.

[alimdia]

Hello, I work for Finaland and although I wasn't at Gamescom for the interview done by Fat Chocobo, I was the one who did the full transcript of it.
"German Media" is just because we couldn't remember the name of the other media who did the interview with us.

The interview was done in english, translated in japanese to Mr. Yoshida and Mr.Soken, then the answers were translated back in english to us.

It was Mr. Koji-Fox who did the translation, so there are no translation errors possible.
(I'm sure you will find a lot of grammatical errors though, English is not my native language !)

We emit those kind of critics towards the game because we love the game (I myself am a player since version 1.20), we want the game to continue to shine and we think that sometime some critics are necessary.
Our intentions were in NO WAY to put Yoshida and the developement team on the spot. We have a huge respect for them and we love the game that's why in each of our interviews we ask questions that we think are important to the community.

Massive props to your team for asking the questions they have been ignoring so far.

[Mimilu]

We emit those kind of critics towards the game because we love the game (I myself am a player since version 1.20), we want the game to continue to shine and we think that sometime some critics are necessary.
Our intentions were in NO WAY to put Yoshida and the developement team on the spot. We have a huge respect for them and we love the game that's why in each of our interviews we ask questions that we think are important to the community.

If I remember correctly, Yoshi-P even thanked you guys for asking those types of hard questions during one of your past interviews.